Blackshield Origin ideas, add to the list!

[Bronze Beast in the Dark]

From the Deathwatch: Blackshield thread

 

The 40K universe is so huge, and filled with so much possibility I see no reason to limit the who and why of a Blackshield.

 

There were some ideas in the Blackwatch thread, lets keep this one with just origin ideas... no tactics, just origin ideas.

 

Feel free to add to it, lets see how many we can get!

 

1. It could be simple, like a Howling Griffon who failed a vow.

 

2. Or as complex as a Dark Angel (or other Unforgiven Chapter) who doesn't like the single minded focus of the hunt for the Fallen and left his chapter after an attack on allies who had learned too much.

 

3. A Red Scorpion who decided to use camouflage.

 

[BrainFireBob]

4. Legion marine lost in time

 

5. Dark/Cursed Founding escapee

 

6. A Relictor that's not given up searching for alien artifacts

 

7. An Alpha Legion operative (getting it out of the way)

 

8. A UM successor who has failed in his duty and is seeking suicide

 

9. A marine who has lost his gene-seed through misadventure and thereby failed his chapter

 

10. A SW discipline problem

 

11. A Fallen

 

12. A survivor of the Abyssal Crusade, but his chapter fell

 

13. A Crimson Saber

 

14. A Son of Sanguinius that succumbed to the Rage but pulled himself back, afraid of Astorath and not realizing he'd be a symbol of hope to his chapter

 

15. A Salamander who chose the greater good and allowed innocents to be butchered to lure the enemy into a trap

 

16. The last Flesh Tearer Sanguinary Guard

 

17. A Raven Guard "Black Eyes"- that inspired the Moritat

 

18. A Chapter like the Tiger Claws that was decided to be too decimated to rebuild.

 

19. A survivor of the Flame Falcons, loyal to the Emperor and not participating in the Badab War, who was spared the fate of his brethren (Legion of the Damned) and is seeking resolution through combat

 

20. An Executioner who participated in the Badab War against his personal honor code

 

Have to get back to work.

Edited August 22, 2016 by BrainFireBob

[hivey]

21: blood raven to failed to stea- er " receive as a gift" a relic from another chapter

[jeremy1391]

A standard bearer who lost the company standard in battle

 

An apothecary who let his chapter master die

 

A chaplain who lost his faith

 

A librarian who used malefic daemonology to save his brothers

 

A scout sergeant who led his neophytes on a suicide mission

 

An imperial fist who abandoned a fortification

 

An ultramarine who broke the codex

 

A crimson fist who went to ground when his company died on Rynn

 

A black Templar who started manifesting psychic abilities

[Jacques Corbin]

A Space Wolf Lone Wolf, who just keeps surviving.

[Canadian_F_H]

Seeks isolated system. Conquers local forgeworld. Comit all its resources to turning itself into a fortress world. Developed cloaking device that hides entire world. Hides in a bunker, inside a fortrest inside the center of this fortress world. Dispatches servitor aboard a rogue trader to other side of the galaxy with encoded message. Prays for forgiveness from his chapter...

 

 

 

 

The message reads:

 

A member of the black templars' lost librarius who dissapeared during the howling...

 

(Personally I'm of the sort that the bts held up the no librarius dictatum of the emperor and never had any, but you know...)

Edited August 23, 2016 by Canadian_F_H

[Canadian_F_H]

A Space Wolf Lone Wolf, who just keeps surviving.

This is a really good one. I like it.

Edited August 23, 2016 by Canadian_F_H

[helterskelter]

 

A Space Wolf Lone Wolf, who just keeps surviving.

This is a really good one. I like it.

Needs to be something silly like facing down a carnifex, about to impaled but whatever the carnifex was stood on collapsed, or about to charge an ork warboss but the meks grot warp launcher went wrong and the warboss was killed by a grot that magically appeared in his head.

Or serious ones.. serious works too

[Jacques Corbin]

Yeah, would the DW just happen upon him, or would they seek him out due to his "reputation"

 

There is an old viking myth about a warrior who fell in love with a valkyrie. She fell for him too, and came to him, even though he wasn't fatally wounded. Odin was furious, and cursed him with immortality to keep them apart.

[Emperor's Furor]

Mine is going to be the last surviving member of the Crimson Consuls, a chapter that got wiped out by the machinations of the Alpha Legion.

[helterskelter]

Yeah, would the DW just happen upon him, or would they seek him out due to his "reputation"

 

There is an old viking myth about a warrior who fell in love with a valkyrie. She fell for him too, and came to him, even though he wasn't fatally wounded. Odin was furious, and cursed him with immortality to keep them apart.

I'd say happened upon him, he's not an inept warrior by any stretch, just so happens when he's in the process of earning his glory and finally joining his brothers, he has dodgy luck, and when he reports in to inform whoever of X's death, they never let him finish the report due to wolfy joy of wolfyness. And as the deathwatch came upon him he thought spanning the galaxy he might find his death. And be listened to for a change :p

[bluntpencil]

Astral Claw.

 

Fallen Dark Angel (of course).

 

A Marine that abandoned his Chapter for failing his moral code, such as wanting to save innocents, but the Chapter, as a whole, didn't want to.

 

A gene-seed experiment.

 

A Marine who was unfairly blamed for a great wrong. His Chapter, being cool guys, gave him another option, instead of handing him over to Inquisitor Hardass. "We've got your back, we'll remember you."

 

A Celestial Lion, or Crimson Fist, investigating the Inquisition from closer to home, having caught their scent and believing them at fault for their Chapters' suffering.

 

A Carcharadon who remembered his brutal treatment, being kidnapped as a youth, and had always planned to escape his Chapter/captors.

 

A Red Scorpion Apothecary, who failed his own exacting purity criteria.

Edited August 23, 2016 by bluntpencil

[Black Cohort]

A space marine captain who lost a very controversial vote for being the next chapter master. The winner has banished him from the chapter feeling that his command will never be secure as long as his rival is a potential replacement.

 

A marine who's chapter is one of the few that doesn't have an ancient pact to provide members to the deathwatch.

 

The last survivor of a strike force thought destroyed, he barely survived and it took years for him to get off planet. His shame at having failed his brothers and his mission has led him to the deathwatch rather than back to his own chapter.

[Brother Captain Kezef]

A Salamander on the verge of finding one of Vulkan's artifacts, with the device in his grasp, fails and the artifact is lost once more.